Comparing Transitions to Democracy. Law and Justice in South America and Europe (Hardcover)

Part 1: Brazil.- Chapter 1 Constitutional History and Transitional Justice in Contemporary Brazil: Towards a Politics of Time; Cristiano Paixao.- Chapter 2 Constitutional Politics during the Brazilian Civil-military Dictatorship and the Transition: the Constitution as a Tool for Political Reform; Leonardo Barbosa.- Chapter 3 Social Conflict and the Brazilian Transacted Transition: the Criminal Case n. 453/8; Maria Pia Guerra.- Chapter 4 Transitional Justice and Violation of the Indian Rights during the Brazilian Dictatorship (1964-1985); Juliana Neuenschwander Magalhaes.- Part 2: Comparative Perspectives.- Chapter 5 Claudia Paiva Carvalho.- Chapter 6 Domestic Rule of Law Gaps and the Uses of International Human Rights in Post-Atrocity Prosecutions: Argentina, Brazil, and Chile Transitional Justice Experiences; Marcelo Torelly.- Chapter 7 Accountability for Operation Condor Atrocities: the Enduring Search for Truth and Justice in the Southern Cone and Brazil; Francesca Lessa.- Part 3: Comparative Case Studies.- Chapter 8 Lawyers and Transition in Chile; Cath Collins.- Chapter 9 The Protagonism of Judicial System in the Argentinian Transition; Valeria Barbuto.- Chapter 10 Truth and Justice or Legal Oblivion? Transitional Justice and Remembrance of Francoism in Spain; Alfons Aragoneses.- Chapter 11 The Failed Reconciliation. The "Togliatti Amnesty" and the role of the Judiciary in the Post-fascist Italy; Antonella Meniconi.- Chapter 12 Revolutionary and Democratic Legitimacy during Portugal's Transitional Justice Process; Antonio Costa Pinto, Filipa Raimundo.- Part 4: Transitional Time: Theoretical Approaches.- Chapter 13 A verdade e filha do tempo" and "O costume e como que uma outra natureza". The Creative Nature of the Legal Tradition; Antonio Manuel Hespanha.- Chapter 14 Ascriptive Times in the Legal Experience: Transition, Crisis, Emergenc; Massimo Meccarelli.- Chapter 15 Action Times and Time Actions: Between Justice and History; Jose Otavio Guimaraes.